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Having had enough of it, I decided to turn back and leave .

Back to my mom, dad and my beautiful house. The warmth of my family.

I started walking away from my home when this weird thought in my head stopped me short.

"How will you go home, if you are not sure where home is"?

Independance. Probably a very well misunderstood term. What is it? What are our expectations of it? Growing up, being independant was very important to me. It was one of those values that my parents imbibed in me. My dad would keep reiterating how important it was to be independent. He would let me bicycle to school, go to banks and post offices when I was a kid. He used to tell me that i should be able to do every task on my own.

Somewhere along the way independence became an obsession. Independence is easy when its easily defined. Like say financial independence. What about emotional independence? Can we ever be truly emotionally independent? Maybe not. As human beings we are dependent, we crave attention, we have this need to be liked, to like, to be pampered, to be loved. The fact that it does not always happen that way is the cruel , brutal truth.It is a life lesson that we refuse to learn. Or is it misplaced hope. I do not know.

Would it not be awesome if we get everything we want, exactly the same way we want it! Wishful thinking, I know. But I am reminded of Calvin.

"Happiness is not good enough, I demand Euphoria"

I have been listening to some religious sermons and was pleasantly surprised that Mr.Velukudi Krishnan's discourses are extremely interesting. It is the nice story telling format, with the fact that he does not add an ounce of unnecessary information that makes it almost fun to hear. Not to mention, the man does not flounder for words at all. Amazing , I say!

Anyways the thing that amused me today, was a particular thing he said about the soul.
The soul is atomic according to our scriptures. Atomic therefore implies that which cannot be broken down in to further parts. Once I heard it, I immediately thought of Horcruxes. Call it not being "well-read" in the scripture space. i will plead guilty to it. But this is what I remembered. I remembered JKR's idea about splitting the soul. How its the most heinous thing ever, and how it takes evil means to do so.

This just made me think that there is some kind of unifying thing about humans. There have been innumerable parallels drawn between the great civilizations of the bygone era, numerous studies on the similarities between the great epics, the religious scriptures. The underlying human belief in many areas seem to be the same. How else would you expect an english woman say almost the same thing as something that has been said in our scriptures before 1000's of years!

What is your online Persona?

Wait , what is AN online persona?

The world as we know resides within the internet these days. Anything and everything is just a few clicks away. As people spend more time in the internet and with web 2.0 technologies, everyone has an online presence, image, a wait-for-it persona.

That is what this app created by MIT's Aaron Zinma does for you. It finds out your online persona.
It uses natural language processing and the internet and creates what Manoj Jasra of Web Analytics world calls a data portrait.


I am not sure of its accuracy. For the most it seems correct.Though I found sports for me as a big glaring mistake. There is also another big question, there are going to be quite a few Nivethitha Kumar(s) ( I highly doubt that specifically with the spelling). But one cant discount the possibility of people with similar names. So I am not sure if just the name is good enough for developing one's online persona. However its a fun thing to do. Check it out, especially when it is developing your persona.


Go to Personas to get yours.

So I decided that the best way to do most things is to make a plan! And stick to the plan , hopefully.

So I have decided to go back to my book devouring days, the ones where I went from one book to the next.Eloor library in chennai was my best friend at those times.

So the ones I want to read this year ( keeping in mind there is just 6 more months left)

1.Ponniyin Selvan I - Done - Loved Loved Loved it. Cant wait for the next.

2. Ponniyin Selvan II

2.Great Expectations

3.Satanic Verses

4.3 cups of Tea

5. White tiger

6.The curious incident of the dog in the night time - Brilliant Read

7.Roots

8. Heroes of the Valley

9. The Lost Symbol ( when it is out)

I know this is going to be very hard. But well Ill be happy even if i get through 6-7 of them. Let us see. I am now almost through Ponniyin Selvan part 1 and am kicking myself for not reading more tamil novels. What a book! What language! I am bowled over. I already have most of the other books, that i wanted to read, I have been looking for them in old bookstores and amazon.I like owning books. I fancy myself having a great library one day.

Anyways lets see how far I go. I wont forget to update :)

Retrospection is not a genie in a bottle that you get to command when you feel like. Rather it likes to pounce on you when you dont expect it . Sitting on chair sipping my tea and listening the evergreen Rafi, the last thing I expected was to welcome this sudden guest.

The hot tea was teasing me while my thoughts went back to home, life 2 years back and a weird thought of "Is this what I wanted?" . I dont know and I guess its better this way. Cause some answers tend to increase the already confusion ridden mind.

I move on to "Anhi na jao chod kar" of Rafi .Not for retrospection.